FivexL Newsletter, January 2026
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How to Build an MVP on AWS (Part 1): Account Setup, Security & Cost Control
This Part-1 guide is for founders and small product teams shipping their first release on AWS without a full-time DevOps crew. In ~10 minutes you’ll set a rock-solid foundation that stops the classic MVP disasters—surprise bills, insecure accounts, and zero audit trail. We walk you through: …
Building Resilience into SSO Elevator 3.1.0: Lessons from an AWS Outage
How a real AWS outage revealed hidden dependencies in SSO Elevator and led to version 3.1.0 with improved resilience through intelligent S3 caching. A practical guide to engineering for failure.
Unexpectedly Hard: Overcoming Pitfalls in aws_acm_certificate setup
Encountering the “Invalid for_each argument” and “UnsupportedCertificate” errors when configuring AWS ACM certificates via Terraform is surprisingly common. By removing dynamic for_each logic based on unknown attributes and using the aws_acm_certificate_validation resource to wait for certificate …
How AFT Can Help You Achieve Compliance
Introduction to AWS Control Tower and AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) and how it can help you achieve compliance
How GitOps Helped a Startup Scale an On-Premise Solution to SaaS
look at Spot Instance allocation strategies and see how you can use the Terraform module with no issues and save money at the same time.
Building MVP on AWS: Key Services and Benefits for Startups
What an MVP really is and how AWS can help your startup moves from idea to deployment with minimal fuss